Archive: Child Protection

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Preventing Child Abuse and Neglect: A Technical Package for Policy, Norm, and Programmatic Activities

June 27, 2016

Child abuse and neglect is preventable. This technical package presents strategies that prevent child abuse from happening, lessen the short and long term affects of child abuse, and prevent future risk. Approaches to advancing these strategies include: 1) strengthening economic supports for low-income households, 2) changing societal norms to support positive parenting and eliminate the… View Article

INCREASING WOMEN AND GIRLS’ LEGAL PROTECTION

April 19, 2016

“Gender-based differences in legal rights and status particularly affect girls and women.” (1) An initial step in securing a girl’s protection and legal status is to legally register her birth. Birth registration is a fundamental means of securing girls’ rights. Without birth registration and identification documents, children, especially girls, may be unable to access critical… View Article

Child protection

April 15, 2016

Children deserve to be cared for in a loving and nurturing environment, free of abuse, violence, exploitation and neglect, yet children are vulnerable to these in many different situations – families, schools, alternative care, in work environments and on the street. Child Protection prevents and responds to child abuse, exploitation and neglect, and family separation…. View Article

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Prevalence of Sexual Violence Against Children and Use of Social Services — Seven Countries, 2007–2013

June 17, 2015

Sexual violence against children often causes lifelong negative health effects, subsequently increasing vulnerability to mental and physical health issues. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) participated in a global public-private partnership called “Together for Girls” in which they conducted national household surveys of children and youth aged 13-24 years to measure the lifetime… View Article

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THRIVES: A Global Technical Package to Prevent Violence Against Children

Provides evidence-based interventions aimed at preventing violence against children. Violence against children is preventable, but still highly prevalent. It is associated with numerous public health issues including HIV, mental health problems, and involvement in sex trafficking. THRIVE strategies for violence prevention includes: (T) Training in parenting: Interventions that provide parenting support; (H) Household economic strengthening:… View Article

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Positive Parenting in South Africa: Why supporting families is key to development and violence prevention

May 14, 2015

Parenting has a direct impact on a child’s behavior, therefore supporting parents in violence reduction is critical to the growth of children. In order for nationwide violence reduction, scale up of evidence-based programs is needed across the national social service system. By investing in parenting support, nations are indirectly investing in child protection and development…. View Article

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The 1612 Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism: A Resource Pack for NGOs

May 13, 2015

The 1612 Monitoring and Reporting Mechanism (MRM) documents six grave violations perpetrated against children in situations of armed conflict. The six violations: recruitment and use of children, killing and maiming children of children, abduction of children, rape and sexual violence against children, attacks against schools and hospitals, and denial of humanitarian access. This Resource Pack… View Article

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Prevent and Protect: Linking the HIV and child protection response to keep children safe, healthy and resilient

May 1, 2015

This report provides models, case studies, and lessons learned from programs that link child protection issues and HIV/AIDS. It is part of an ongoing effort to understand how child protection issues including abuse, violence, exploitation, and neglect uniquely impact children affected by HIV/AIDS, and vice versa. UNICEF selected three countries to be studied: Nigeria, Zambia,… View Article

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Prevent and protect: Linking the HIV and child protection response to keep children safe, healthy & resilient

March 1, 2015

Living with or being affected by HIV makes children more susceptible to abuse, neglect, and exploitation; being more susceptible to violence puts children at greater risk for HIV infection. This circular pattern demonstrates why it is critical that child protection and OVC actors collaborate in order to improve each other’s outcomes This summary of findings… View Article

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Sources of funding for child marriage work: A brief guide for Girls Not Brides members

January 1, 2015

This resource, originally created for Girls Not Brides members, provides guidance on sources of funding to support efforts to end child marriage.

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